ose who failed.
She worried about this a good deal; she could not sleep at night; and her
cheeks grew pale. She worked hard, and yet sometimes when she reached the
classroom she felt as though her head were a hollow drum in which the
thoughts beat to and fro without either rhyme or reason.
Ruth Fielding was a perfectly healthy girl, as well as an athletic one.
But in a time of stress like this the very healthiest person can easily
and quickly break down. "I feel as though I should fly!" is an expression
often heard from nervous and overwrought schoolgirls. Ruth wished that she
might fly--away from school and study and scenarios and sullen girls like
Amy Gregg.
One evening when she came back to Mrs. Sadoc Smith's with a strapful of
books to study before bedtime, Ruth saw Curly Smith by the shed door busy
with some fishing tackle. Ruth's pulses leaped. Fishing! She had not
thrown a hook into the water for months and months!
"Going fishing, Curly?" she said wistfully.
"Yep."
"Where are they biting now?"
"There's carp and bream under the old mill-dam up in Norman's Woods. I saw
'em jumping there to-day."
"Oh! when are you going?" gasped the girl, hungry for outdoor sport and
adventure.
"In the morning--before _you're_ up," said the boy, rather sullenly.
"I wager I'll be awake," said Ruth, sitting down beside him. "I wake
up--oh, just awfully early! and lie and think."
Curly looked at her. "That don't get you nothin'," he said.
"But I can't help it."
"Gran says you're overworked," Curly said. "Why don't you run away from
school if they make you work so hard? _I_ would. Our teacher's sick so
there isn't any session at the district school to-morrow."
"Oh, Curly! Play hooky?" gasped Ruth, clasping her hands.
"Yep. Only you girls haven't any pluck."
"If I played hooky would you let me go fishing with you to-morrow?" asked
Ruth, her eyes dancing.
"You haven't the sand," scoffed Curly.
"But can I go if I _dare_ run away?" urged Ruth.
"Yep," said the b
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.